Tamir Rice would be celebrating his 18th birthday today had he not been murdered in 2014 by a Cleveland police officer who shot him to death within 2 seconds of arriving on the scene in response to a 911 caller who told the dispatcher that Tamir was “probably a juvenile,” and said twice that the toy gun he was holding “was probably fake.” When Tamir’s sister arrived at the scene 90 seconds after her brother was shot, the officers tackled her to prevent her from checking on him. They let Tamir lay on the ground unattended for four minutes after they shot him, until an FBI agent who was in the neighborhood showed up and thought to pay some attention to the dying boy.
Tamir Rice would have been 18 years old today
